Zoom, mouse tracking and exposé

The problem considering mouse tracking that stops working when expose pops up, has already been known for a few years. Apparently it has been passed on to the accessibility team too as you can read on this old forum page.
But since then nothing has changed. For me, and I sincerely hope I'm not the only one, it would be a considerable step forward in usability of OSX if this problem could be solved. Are there solution for this problem atm?

Tracking has always been a problem, either not tracking, or jumping. I sure hope that apple is looking into this for ways to improve it. I've also reported this several times in various programs.

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I'm facing a very similar problem .
My MBP keyboard freezes eventually during the day - sometimes for a minute, sometimes for much more than that. Mouse continues to work just fine.

Magic mouse, keyboard and track pad don´t work from sleep!

After coming back from sleep, the magic mouse, keyboard and track pad don´t work. I´ve tried everything and when this happens I have to restart may Imac. Help!!!

Hello jhspies,
After reviewing your post, it sounds like after you updated there are a few things having trouble. I would recommend that you read these articles, they may be helpful in troubleshooting your issue.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support
OS X Yosemite: If keys on your keyboard don’t work
Intel-based Mac notebooks: Troubleshooting unresponsive trackpad issues - Apple Support
USB and FireWire Quick Assist - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
Mario

In need of a Mighty Mouse Track Ball

Something small and hard, fell in the mouse track ball area and while i was pressing it (upside down) on a piece of paper to clean it, that little hard piece of dust, carved the surface of my track ball making it unable to scroll without jumping around!
So im now in the need of purchasing a new ball and replacing it! Does the ball as a part exist? Because i can't find anything on ebay! Any help?

What exactly am i looking for in the "about this Mac" specs? I mean i have found the mouses info, i think this is it:
but what numbers must be used in order to locate it from mouseballz website?

Photoshop CS4 always crash (how may I track and fix an APPCRASH) ???

Hello
My Photoshop CS4 always crash when happens these conditions:
1. Open a file picture or create a file. (FILE 1)
2. Import another file picture... (FILE 2)
3. Copy FILE 2 in FILE 1
4. Now FILE 2 appear inside a layer...
5. Move with the mouse the layer corresponding to the FILE 2
CRAAAAAAASHHHH
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Always happens the same, always, always.
It is so annoying, that don't let me work and I am working right now with Photopaint (think I don't like).
I would need your help to tell em how may I track and fix an APPCRASH.
Do we have an application in windows that allow me to detect the causes of an APPCRASH?
Or is this just because the application is failing?
These are the data of the application crash:
Signature of the problem:
Nombre de evento de problema:    APPCRASH
Nombre de la aplicación:    Photoshop.exe
Versión de la aplicación:    11.0.1.0
Marca de tiempo de la aplicación:    499bf9b5
Nombre del módulo con errores:    StackHash_fd00
Versión del módulo con errores:    0.0.0.0
Marca de tiempo del módulo con errores:    00000000
Código de excepción:    c0000005
Desplazamiento de excepción:    65637275
Versión del sistema operativo:    6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Id. de configuración regional:    3082
Información adicional 1:    fd00
Información adicional 2:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Información adicional 3:    fd00
Información adicional 4:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional information about the problem:
Id. de depósito:    1164041060
The texts are in Spanish sorry, I'm from Spain.
May someone help me to track and trace this bug and how to solve it?
Thanks

Prior to the subscription models—and of course that includes CS4—the Photoshop license was platform specific, either Windows or Mac, but not both. Your CS4 Windows serial number ("key") will never work on the Mac version.
CS4 is out of the loop as far as requesting a platform swap for a nominal fee. It is no longer supported by Adobe in any way. A platform swap required the destruction of your PC version, so you could not use both the PC and the Mac versions.
For a time, you could have used CS4 to upgrade to CS6 for about $200, but that time window has closed by now. Now you would have to own a legitimate version of CS5 in order to be eligible to buy an upgrade to CS6.
You can of course buy the full version of Photoshop CS6 Extended for $1,000 from the Adobe store:
Creative Suite 6
Alternatively, you can subscribe to Photoshop CC and Photoshop CC2014 on a monthly basis without ever owning the software. If you stop paying monthly, the software ceases to work.
The cheapest subscription is the Photography plan, which includes both Photoshop and Lightroom for $10 a month.
These are user forums; you are not addressing Adobe here. To contact Adobe support directly:
Click on the link below, and after that click on "Still need Help? Contact us."
Then on the next page, click Chat
http://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?step=PHXS_downloading-installing-setting-up_licensing- activation.
There is also a phone option. 1 (800) 833-6687

Crosshair mouse tracker on Plot Chart

Hi All,
I have implemented a flex plot chart, which works fine (able to plot items to it). I want to add a cross hair tracking device that will move along with the mouse. The cross hair will draw a simple horizontal and vertical line crossing at the mouse pointer to the edges of the chart. I already have registered for the mouse move event (I have a status line that prints the real world values based on x/y position as the mouse moves). The crosshair implementation I have tried implementing causes the mouse tracking to act very strange...almost, in a lagging type behaviour. I am using a Graphics object from the plot chart object. I do a clear each time before I redraw the crosshair (as the mouse moves). The 'clear' seems to be the core of the lag problem (if I comment out the 'clear', the tracking works fine..but of course the crosshair from the previous mouse position doesnt erase). I didnt see an 'xor' type of function which is what I have used on like projects before. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
my plot char is called tlat_chart.
var G:Graphics = tlat_chart.graphics;
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G.lineTo(newx, somey);
etc......

Take a look at Eli's custom chart annotations here: http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/ChartSampler/app.html

Premiere Elements 13 issue with the mouse on When I select a clip of video and move to a different place in my time line, Premiere Elements 13, will not release the clip rom the mouse. The clip follows my mouse movements and goes to other places in my

Premiere Elements 13 issue with the mouse on MAC OSX Yosemite 10.10.1
When I select a clip of video and move to a different place in my time line, Premiere Elements 13, will not release the clip from the mouse.
The clip follows my mouse movements and goes to other places in my time line.
I try to delete these extra insertions, but the mouse will not release the clip.
Action I’ve taken: I’ve re-installed Premiere Elements 13. Problem remains.
This issue has consumed too much of my time and does not go away. It ruins my video.
Help please.
Thanks

I tried using the Guest Account on my Mac. In the Guest Account, Illustrator works perfect!
Then I started wondering what processes (tools/tweaks) I run by default on my account. Turned out the problem was called by a little background tool called RightZoom. RightZoom let's the green 'zoom' button always maximize your current window.
So thanks! Problem solved!

Mighty Mouse Track Ball

Does any one else have issues with the mighty mouse track ball?? My does not work half the time. When it is working it will only work in one direction half of that time.
Does anyone know of ways to clean it?? Or keep this from happening?
Cameron
MBP 15.4" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I've read all the posting about this..in recent months I've been cleaning the track ball 6,7,8,9....times every day. I had planned to buy a wireless Mighty Mouse but not now, it'd be cheaper to sit in front of my Mac bashing my testicles with a mallet for the same effect. Apple, this is an utter design disaster. Like Joachim says, why not a mouse we can open and clean easily, or a larger, more robust track ball mechanism? I'm off to but a mouse by anyone but Apple...
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IMAC 27 - attached a second monitor - mouse tracking problem

After attaching a 19 inch lcd via the mini display port and a dvi adapter my mouse tracking has gone bad, not just from one screen to the other even just on the main screen if you move the mouse around it jumps several inches and is very inaccurate. problem goes away when the second mointor is unpluged.
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Stephen

I'll add to the chorus: I have the 27" iMac, and I get the same mouse jumpiness when I connect my 24" Acer P244W display via the Mini DisplayPort-DVI adapter. Oddly enough, the mouse jumpiness is more pronounced when I use my old wired MS Intellimouse Optical than when I use the included Magic Mouse. I've confirmed with another Mac (and with this Mac minus the second display) that the wired mouse is functioning normally.
Basically, given slow, constant mouse movement, the cursor will hiccough for about a tenth of a second once every 1.0 seconds, like clockwork. Given more normal use, the cursor will continue to hiccough every second and will also occasionally jump to a completely unrelated location on the screen. (The wired mouse was the worse off here, jumping unpredictably several times a minute.)
I've unplugged the secondary display for now, but I kinda sorta really need it for Flash and video work. Apple, help!

Keyboard & Mouse Settings - Mouse Tracking Problem

Whenever I change the tracking setting for my mighty mouse in system preferences it works fine, but as soon as I close system preferences the tracking setting reverts to the default setting. I tried altering various settings and they all remain as I set them when I close system preferences, but the mouse tracking setting is the only one that will not remain as I set it. I tried changing the setting in Terminal, but it will not work that way either. Then I downloaded MouseZoom thinking that maybe it would work, but it also works fine until you close system preferences. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried repairing permissions?
If that doesn't work try downloading Onyx
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/onyx.html
Run these scripts in the 'Cleaning' Tab
* User Caches
* System Caches
* Core Files
* Temporary Files
See if that works for ya.
Good Luck
-Steve

Airport/freezing/mouse track won't work

Hey guys, I'm wondering if you could help with my iBook G4. I'm beginning to get seriously annoyed with it. I bought it back in September and it was fine up until recently where it has begun crashing. It tells me that I need to push down the power button to power down. When that happens, I shut it down and then I power it back up again. However, when it does load up, Airport cannot be found/does not exist. When I try to run disk utility, or any other program, it freezes. Not only that but the mouse track will no longer respond.
I'm bloody well tired of having to restart it over 10 times. I've updated all the necessary software and hardware on here. Maybe this happened when I updated the Airport software. I am running some third party software, but that hardly crashes the laptop. There are times when it won't respond and I just force quit applications.
I'm really annoyed and I need this laptop to work. I've also found that the build of iBook is loose like it has been altered before being sent to me.
Any help would be necessary. Thank you.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
It seems you are encountering a . The cause of a kernel panic could be hardware or software. If your AirPort card is not available after a crash like this, that could be a telling sign. Perhaps your AirPort card itself is loose? A loose connection could cause a kernel panic. You might try taking it out and putting it back in to make sure it's secure.
If that doesn't help, you might visit Dr. Smoke's great FAQ about troubleshooting kernel panics here.
-Doug

Drag and Drop issue and Exposé

I know that there are many people with the same problem and maybe creating a new topic might seem lazy but I've just found a way to replicate the problem in my system and that might enlighten somebody to find a way to fix it.
I've noticed that finder stops being able to "drag" a file in list view after I use Exposé to select the window. If I click out of the window into the desktop or some other window and click again without using Exposé, it seems to work just fine, then I Exposé out and back again, and no dragging.
This seems to happen every time I use Exposé to get to the window. I can use Exposé to get out of the finder window, and as long as I don't use it to get back to the finder window, dragging works.

to add to the last:
Henahn's observations are still exactly what is happening,
but the window size of firefox has nothing to do with it as I test it.
It is as Henahn's findings:
If I use the side buttons of the bluetooth mouse to activate Exposé and go to another screen where there is a open finder window with a selection; dragging that selection doesn't work.
Going back with Expose to the first screen, then mouse-clicking that desktop to activate the finder, then going back to the screen with the finder-selection will make the drag-function working again.
It is a work around, but what a hassle if you have to do this a lot.
Apple. Fix this please!

Timeline - Cannot Move Tracks and Display Problem

I've created about a ten-minute timeline that I'd really prefer not to toss out because a lot of work went into creating parts of it and getting the timing right with the music, etc. When I first open the project in Premiere Elements, everything seems okay - my timeline plays with all transitions and I can scroll around in the timeline. However, I appear to have done something where whenever I click and drag to try to move a track, the timeline goes insane. I get a circle with a line through it for a cursor and a blank tooltip window, whether I try to drag the track horizontally or vertically. After that, while the timeline will still play, the timeline itself gets all wonky in its display, almost as if the video isn't refreshing on it. (It's kind of like the timeline has crashed.) I attached a screenshot of what it looks like. Whenever I move my cursor to the edge of the timeline, the timeline scrolls in that direction.
I'm running Premiere Elements 7 Educational Version on a Core 2 Duo laptop with 3GB RAM, an Intel 965 graphics chip (latest Intel drivers are installed), and Vista Business 32-bit. The clips are from a standard DV cam (not HD), and there are some PNG format stills and MP3 sounds mixed in there as well. There are three active A/V tracks. I think that's all the relevant information, but ask me if you need more.
Can anyone tell me what I've done and/or how to fix this?

Good morning every one!
The bad news: As expected the problem does still occur. The good news: I was able to track it down to one clip in the timeline.
To save others time, I will described what I have evaluated quite detailed in the following paragraphs...
As it seemed to me that deactivating the Windows indexing service made the usage of PrE more stable I thought that maybe file locks would cause the trouble. So I verified this by opening the project in PrE, writing and executing a small Java application that puts an exclusive file lock on one of the files from the project and tried to move the according clip in the timeline. It worked without any problems and the known symptoms did not occur. So we can put aside the file locks.
Afterwards I tried to reproduce the problem by playing around with the scene that caused problems last week. I tried by moving around the video clips and the problem did not occur. Then I remembered my statement I have made earlier, that the problems seemed to occur as I started to work with titles and music clips -- and bingo: I have three music clips in my "soundtrack" track and one of them seems to cause the whole trouble. After I have clicked on this specific music clip, the problem occurs and it is no longer possible to move anything in the timeline and the strange behaviour regarding the automatic scrolling when the cursor is at the left/right etch is activated.
It was easily reproducable: Restart PrE, open my project, move a video clip to verify that moving clips works, click on the specific music clip and the problem occurs. I have tried this several times and each time the problem occured. When I clicked on one of my other two music clips everything was fine -- same for the video clips I tried. So in my case it seems to be this single clip.
OK, what's specific regarding this clip: All my music files are placed on a share on my Windows home server (in contrast to the video footage which is located on the local HD). So I moved the "dangerous" music file to the local HD, changed the path to the file with a text editor directly in the PrE project file (which is a simple XML file) and started up PrE again. I verified that PrE takes the file from the local HD (server was down), but the problem did still occur. So it is not a network issue.
The next specific thing is, that this music file is the only file in my project which is a .wma-file -- the others are .mp3-files. So I did three things:
At first I downloaded the project file provided by SQFreak2 in this thread and checked whether he is also using .wma-files. The result: He does not use them.
As the second thing I again changed my project file in the text editor: I changed the path of the music clip to some other .mp3-file. Afterwards I opened up PrE with that project file, used the playback to verify that the other music file is referenced by the clip instead of the original wma-file and then tried to move the clip -- again the symptoms occured.
As the last step I created a new project, added the "problematic" wma-file, placed it on the "soundtrack" track and afterwards tried to move it. The result: No problems at all.
So it neither seems to be a generic problem with wma-files nor does it seem to be a file-specific problem at all.
Lets summarize the things from above: File locks do not cause any trouble. In my project a single audio clip seems to cause the problem. The problem seems to be caused by the clip and not the file referenced by the clip (no matter whether local or server based, wma or mp3, the problem occurs in every case).
What I have learned? Well, I am not sure. But in the meanwhile I am quite sure, that it hasn't to do anything with hardware and drivers, but that we are dealing with a bug in PrE that occurs in specific project cirumstances.
This morning I have got some additional ideas I would like to try to track the problem down (e.g. the problematic clip has a transition for a fade out in the end [when I did this I didn't knew, that a fade out could be easily achieved in the clip's properties] -- I will try to remove this one and look what will happen).
P.S.: In one of my earlier posts I stated the assumption that the problem occurs as soon as I move the mouse cursor over the vertical scroll bar of the timeline -- but this is definitely not the case.

Mouse tracking

OK, I have finally had a chance to play around with my newly purchases iMac 24" yesterday! So far so good, and as a now ex Windows users I am very impressed with the OS However, I have one little niggle, and if there's a solution I would love to see it.
I have adjusted to mouse tracking speed to around 90% so that I can quickly cover the 24 inches of my screen, but I am getting a little frustrated by the fact that when I slow my hand movement down slightly (for instance, to click on a small object, or to highlight text etc.) the mouse slows down to a crawl. I am assuming that this is a deliberate feature of OSX to increase accuracy, but it is slowing me down. Is there any way to turn this "feature" off?

A lot of people have been complaining about the acceleration curve algorithm used in the Intel Macs. You may have some success with an alternative driver such as http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13443
USB Overdrive which has many more options than Apples's mouse driver.
G4 Sawtooth, 400MHz (upped to 1.1 GHz), 1.2GB Mac OS X (10.4.9) 120 GB HD, ATI Radeon 9000, DVR-105

Mouse Down and Mouse Move and scroll ?

Hi,
Here is what I want to do:
Whenever a user presses the mouse down and the moves the mouse, I want to synchronize the scrollbar thumb and the mouse. How is it possible?
thanks.

hi,
there are 2 ways to do this depending on what you need from the mouse move
1. To get the difference from when the mouse is pressed
on the mousedown event your store the mouse coordinates -
myX= stageX or LocalX myY= stageY or LocalY
on the mousemove event you subtract the current co-ordinates from the saved cordinates
myXDif = myX-currentX
myYDif = myY-currentY
the difference will be negative or positive you can use that figure to calculate the percentage of range and then set the scrollposition
2. Just track the mouse
on the mouse move calculate the percentage position of the mouse to set the scrollbars
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VerticalScrollPosition= the max vertical value * (LocalY/Height)
David

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